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Fellow mental healthcare workers: READ THIS STAT. This week happens to be my 16th work anniversary, and so I found Florie St. Aime’s book as incredibly timely, human, as well as equally validating and challenging (in the best way). Took me weeks to read because it deserves savoring. 10/10 ⭐️s! 🙏 📚

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For fellow descendants of Celtic & Nordic ancestry, especially those interested in epigenetics or ancestor veneration work: check these two books out! Fascinating. 🧬 🤯 🌊 ⛰️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 (P.S. special shout out others in maternal haplogroup “Ursula” 👋 😉 Remember though, we’re all cousins in the end. 🌍)

Today was for bravery: I submitted an application to my first ever writers workshop with @mccormackwc.bsky.social 🤯 Mostly posting here to help celebrate & cheer on any of my fellow applicants. What an opportunity! No matter what: keep dreaming, & creating, all. Onwards!📚 📖 ✍️ 🌍

Fellow SpecFic writers…. 👀 👀 👀

💉If your study uses millions of patient records and finds vaccines are safe… …and your response is to block the publication? 😑 That’s not data integrity. That’s policy malpractice wrapped in anti-science spin. ⚠️ Public health runs on transparency, not selective silence. 🧪

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies.

An overdue introduction! Meet our newest family member (and my frequent writing buddy/supervisor), our 10 month old kitty Lunaria Geilis - aka Luna. She’s been home for four months as of today, and we are beyond lucky & in love. 🐈‍⬛ 💜 🌙

On this day in 1898, Septima Poinsette Clark was born. She became a tireless advocate for education and civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., called her the “Mother of the Movement.” Her motto was “literacy means liberation.” #WeTheMen

Just backed this at the Selkie tier! Woooo - so excited!! And congrats Allyson - I loved your “Ashes & Stones”, so am sure this will be fabulous. 📚 🦭 ✨

Hey writers (new and new at heart!), looking to brush up on your grammar & line work? Consider “The Elements of Style” by EB White & William Strunk Jr, 4th edition. Despite how much practice, it’s normal to have a bit of ye old “writer’s drift” from time to time… 😉 Happy writing & editing! 📚 📖 ✍️

Thanks all for your colleagueship & support this #QuestPit! Didn’t know it was happening until the 9th hour 😜 but new connections were made, and I’m excited for so many stories that need to be published! 📖 And #LiteraryAgents, hope you are getting some good sleep tonight/soon? 🙃 #WritingCommunity

After a traumatic loss activates a dormant gene which manifests ancestral memories, a 22nd century, disabled archivist must decipher the scope of her history & grief—before the past she has discarded, and rising authoritarian threats in the present, decide the future for her. #QuestPit #W #A #U #S

Another craft book rec for you this week: Nisi Shawl & Cynthia Ward’s 2005 (and very relevant) guide, “Writing the Other.” Make sure to read this one, and keep it on your shelf for future reference! 📚 📖 ✍️

And remember: Long COVID is a pre-existing condition… And a *conservative* estimate is about 7% (or 25 million) of all Americans currently have it - and that # is only rising…. …and currently the only way to prevent contracting Long COVID is to not get COVID. 😷

"The world has moved on from COVID. The risk hasn’t." - By Professor Adrian Esterman "An epidemiologist explains what the evidence says about when the next pandemic might happen — and why the risk isn’t declining" #COVID19 #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne

UK: Urgent warning of long Covid symptoms as number of cases rise in UK. Over 2 million people in the UK are living with long COVID, the “forgotten epidemic,” with symptoms lasting over 12 weeks. "Long Covid is not a problem that has gone away, as some people like to think." archive.md/AAB9W

For my fellow writers, here’s a few great craft books I’ve been (re)reading of late... Verlyn’s “Several short sentences” is a particular favorite, but all are very useful tools. Happy writing/editing! 📚 📖 ✍️

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Read @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social ‘s latest two publications over the weekend, and oooof they were the equal hopecore & call-to-keep-moving that my soul needed. *Highly* recommend! 🙏

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Been getting a lot more into folklore lately, and figured going with The Epic of Gilgamesh (one of the oldest surviving myths we have) would be a good call. Turns out, yes! Super interesting, & I like this translation (which includes a great introduction, and a series of essays after the story). 📚

Ahhh this was so, so good!! Historian Sarah Clegg does it again with this fantastic lineage of not only myths but how they helped shape our modern day grapplings with gender & womanhood, healthcare, and human rights. Highly recommend. 📚

Been in a rough health/workload/world overwhelm for a bit now, so editing the book has taken a pause… but for now, here’s some great recent reads, starting with: historian Sarah Clegg’s “The Dead of Winter”. Solid keeper for ye lovers of folklore, and the history of Yule & adjacent holidays.🎄❄️ 🌙 🧙‍♀️

Been in a rough health/workload/world overwhelm for a bit now, so editing the book has taken a pause… but for now, here’s some great recent reads, starting with: historian Sarah Clegg’s “The Dead of Winter”. Solid keeper for ye lovers of folklore, and the history of Yule & adjacent holidays.🎄❄️ 🌙 🧙‍♀️

Ladies- Do you see what they are doing now?! The abortion pill is critical for women who have had miscarriages. They’re silently stripping away our rights and our healthcare! Call your reps and make noise! We have to be able to chew gum and walk at the same time! #ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1

kind reminder that this time of year—the beginning of lockdowns for many—can be a traumaversary. even if you logically feel fine, your body may remember those feelings.

another march, another #LongCovidAwarenessMonth

if you think you’d don’t know anyone with longcovid, but you don’t use any mitigation yourself, consider: yes you do, they just may not feel safe enough to tell you.

this is the motherfucking truth. so many folks have it. i know at least a dozen. just because i listen and still take this shit seriously.

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Friends—I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.

“Surgical masks are to respirators what the typewriter was to the modern computer, said @adamfinkel.bsky.social, who was chief regulatory official at the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration between 1995 and 2000: “Obsolete.”’

I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

Kelly Hayes(@mskellymhayes.bsky.social), speaking tonight, recalls a Minneapolan today telling at federal agents, "you can't kill us all." "I am grateful to the people of Minneapolis tonight," she says. "Their courage in the wake of this violence is a bright light for us to rally around."

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

One hundred thousand people a year and y'all using past tense when you talk about Covid now jfc

In 2026 let’s normalize masking for public health. If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense. Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!

[staring directly into the ~107 year old camera]

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Proposal for degrees to remove from "professional" classification: Education Nursing (MSN, DNP) Social work (MSW, DSW) Public health (MPH, DrPH) Physician assist. Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech-language pathology Business master's Engineering master's Counseling & therapy

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.

White supremacy is when Republican men and women in their 20s & 30s praising Hitler, genocide, and rape are “just kids”—but 18-year-old Michael Brown was no angel, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was a thug, 16-year-old Kalief Browder was a criminal, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice should’ve known better.😐

Return-to-office policies hurt women: "After decades of progress on closing the pay gap between men and women, it’s now widening. For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row,...with women earning www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...